Women's Hairstyles

• Greek women wore their hair curled on the forehead and on the sides, or parted in the center and drawn back in waves to a chignon. A chignon is the hair twisted into a knot and worn on the nape of the neck or on the top of the head. Greek women also wore a fillet or band around the head and tucked the back hair into it. They wore wigs that altered the shape of the coiffure, and dyed their hair and decorated it with flowers, jewels, stephanes (or tiaras) and bands.
  
  

Men's Hairstyles

• Greek men tended to their hair as much as women did. They generally wore it short and curled. Since blond hair was admired, they sometimes bleached their hair. Men also adorned their hair with pomades or perfumes to make it fragrant and give it a sheen.
  
  

Tunics

• The clothes men and women wore were similar, except men's tunics reached their knees, and women's tunics fell to the ankles or the ground. The very old Dorian tunic was a wool rectangle that was pinned on one or both shoulders by a fibula, or decorated pin, and the material hung loose. Soldiers wore tunics tunic pinned on one shoulder to give them greater freedom of movement. The exomis was a shorter version of the tunic, and working men and slaves wore it.
  
  

Chitons and Peplos

• A later tunic was the chiton, which was worn with a belt. Chitons reached the knees of men, and they fell to the ground for women. Later versions of chitons had elbow-length sleeves. Women wore them regularly, but men wore the sleeves only on ceremonial occasions. The female version of the Doric tunic was the peplos. It was made of two pieces of fabric pinned together on each shoulder and allowed to hang to the ankles. Later, a long chiton was worn beneath the peplos, which would be worn with a girdle.
  
  

Cloaks

• Cloaks were darker-colored than tunics. The two types of cloaks were chlamys and himations, which were made of thick wool and pinned on the shoulder. Chlamys were worn mostly by men. Himations were larger and usually worn draped over the left shoulder and wrapped around the body. Women would also drape himations over their heads.